Choose the perfect synonym or antonym for the word To put something down gently or carefully in a particular position or to tell a lie.
Lay
/leɪ/Synonyms:
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Examples:
He showed us into a long dining-room where breakfast was laid.
The studio is hysterical about the picture laying an egg.
He lays for a stranger, and he fetches that stranger.
Etymology:
From Middle English legen, from Old English lecgan (to place, put, set down, lay (eggs)), from Proto-West Germanic *lagjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną (to lay, place, set), from Proto-Indo-European *legh- (to lie, lay).
Usage Statistics:
107 mentions per 1 million words 
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